Gilkey's Book of Poems

By Keith A Gilkey

My book tells different parts of things that occurred during my life. Some things are interpreted and other things are just thoughts. I guess you would say I have a variety of different situations, which would range from fiction, nonfiction, fantasies that I daydreamed about or imagined could happen one day. I use different things in my poems to

• Language: English
• Publisher: Stratton Press
• Release date: Oct 19, 2020
• ISBN: 9781648952630

Book preview

A Black Cloud

Something which makes you feel sad

As your heart beats with pain

Troubles that make you mad

As you think you’re going insane

It startles you with desire

Every moment that you think

It feels like you’re on fire

Oh lord, don’t let me drink

It makes you want to die

The anger that you feel

Is it justice or is it a lie

Please, don’t let it be real

My soul feels in the dark

Of shadows I thought I’ve seen

While walking in the park

Oh no, it is just a dream

A Day in the Projects

It began the day I moved in

With my eyes I saw the fear

I never saw so much sin

But I knew it was very near

So I stepped out to take a walk

What I have seen I never would have thought

I kept my mouth closed and I didn’t talk

If I had ran, I knew I would have fought

For this life would make you cry

The people here are very mad

I had to leave before I’d die

I didn’t know this place was that bad

But there is so much anger and so much hate

I left this place as I felt the pain

While driving so fast, I hit the gate

Then I stopped and thought, was I insane

A Dream beyond the Stars

A dream beyond the stars is like a shadow of light in the dark where spirits dance through the night and angels fly through the park

Where starlight trickles full and bright

A dream beyond the stars is like a bouquet of roses floating through space

And a flow of atoms whistling with energy

Where the waves of life hit upon my face

A spawn of whales fleeing with savagery

A dream beyond the stars is like having wine in the moonlight

Or taking a bath in a river of streams

Like sitting by the sea on a windy night

Or seeing falling leaves on a midnight full of dreams

A Forbidden Mistake

I ponder why my life is this way

Then I remembered that weary time in May

When I had done the most horrible thing that day

For it is so forbidden I can’t say

So I pray to God and cry

Then I say I don’t know why

But ask for forgiveness and beg that he will try

As I raise my head up to the sky

For now, I know it is time

That I must pay for this crime

Before I go pass my prime

Even though I will lose every dime

Only I can be the blame

So I must hold my head down in shame

For what I have done was not a game

So when he calls,